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Ways to identify a bad school or organization

• Can the founder's or instructor's claims of rank be independently verified? Do the instructor's teachers exist?

• Does the founder, or the organization, have a history of unsavory conduct, such as numerous charges, convictions, law suits etc.?

• Does the instructor make claims that no rational person would believe, such as John "Iron" Kim's claim of jumping from an 11 story building with a side kick and landing safely on the ground?

• Does the instructor discourage questions?

• Does the instructor constantly put down other martial arts and being too soft, too political, too commercial, etc.?

• Does instructor avoid dealing with issues of proof and change the subject, or does he or she attack others when asked probing questions. In other words, do they behave similar to politicians instead of as statesmen or women.

• Do they have testimonies by "satisfied students" on most of the promotional materials? Who would print testimonials by "unsatisfied" customers?

• Does the instructor demand to be treated as something special instead of as a teacher?

• Does the school use deceptive practices or changes names and locations frequently?

• Does money appear to be the prime goal of the  school or organization?

• If this were a business deal, would this organization be a risk in which you would be willing to invest your time and money?

• Does the organization claim international status because some one in another country is a member?

• Does the organizations web site look like a child designed it? If the organization is all it claims, then it should at least have a professionally designed web site.

• Do the claimed benefits exist and are commensurate with the membership fee?

When choosing a school, find a instructor you like and then consider his or her organization. If you cannot accept the procedures of the organization, then find another instructor you like, in an organization you can accept. In fact, membership in an organization is not required to learn Taekwondo (or any other martial art) and to advance in rank. In actuality, your rank is not determined solely on your certificate of rank; the final determination is your skill in the marital art. People are not impressed by a certificate that says you are skillful, they are impressed by the skills you can actually perform.

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